YouTube design director details platform’s new ‘YouTube Sans’ font

The font is coming soon to headlines and titles

In a recent tweet, YouTube design director Christopher Bettig detailed YouTube Sans, the new font that’s coming to the popular video streaming platform.

According to Bettig, the YouTube design team spent 10 months redrawing each and every glyph and adapting the font to 308 global languages.

10 months of work has gone into this update of our display font, YouTube Sans. We’ve redrawn each glyph, increased to 309 languages, made a variable font, added grades for dark theme, created a stylistic set, introduced auto substitutions and so much more.. coming soon to YouTube pic.twitter.com/eRcDtQHbp6